Ring-frame tool.



L. H. ROONEY.

RING FRAME TOOL.

APPLICATION man 001.22. 1912.

Patented May 18, 1915.

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a snare Tn FTQ LUKE H. RODNEY, ornnwennronn, MASSACHUSETTS, Assrenoze ToTHE WHITIN MACHINE WORKS, or WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATIONor MAS- SAGHUSETTS.

RING-FRAME TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 22,1912. Serial No. 727,161.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUKE H. RooNEY, a citizenof the United States, residing in New Bedford, Massachusetts, haveinvented the following described new and useful Ring Frame Tool.

The invention is a tool for removing the travelers from spinning ringsand, is designed to obviate the trouble and waste of time ordinarilyexperienced by the operative in prying or pulling the traveler off ofthe ring when it is necessary to remove it. The new tool operates bypressing the traveler against the ring itself and relies onthe hightemper of the traveler to cause it to snap into pieces when distorted orflattened against the top or side of the ring; The tool comprises a partadapted to find a bearing on some solid part of the machine, andpreferably upon the lower side of the ring rail itself, and another partadapted to overlie the spinning ring in a position from which it can bemoved to press the traveler downwardly against the top of the ring andthereby snap it in two. Such an instrument is shown in preferred andmodified forms in the accompanying sheet of drawings, where 1n Figure 1is a perspective view of the tool in use, showing the ring rail and ringin section, and the traveler in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a modified formof the same instrument, incorporating certain adjustments.

As will be seen from the drawings, the tool comprises a handle 1, towhich the parts 2 and 3 forming the fulcrum member and thetraveler-engaging member, respectively, are secured by means of a screw4, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. In this form, the said members 2 and3 can be most conveniently made in one piece by striking them up from ablank of strap iron, forming the connecting part 5, with a hole toreceive the set screw, or otherwise, whereby it can be screwed to thehandle. The lower member 2 is preferably adapted to engage upon theunder side of the front flange 6 of the ringrail 7, and for this purposeis provided with a shoulder 2, as indicated, which will hook on to theback edge of this flange in an obvious manner. The upper member 3, whichmay be parallel with the lower member, is also somewhat longer,depending upon the position of the ring 8 with reference to the front ofthering rail, so that it will overlie the ring when in the positionindicated in the drawing. The length of the back portion 5 is selectedaccording to the depth of the particular rail flange and the height ofthe ring, so that in the said position it will be close to the top ofthe ring. The traveler 9 is brought to the front of the ring, and byswinging the tool on the shoulder 2 as a fulcrum, the member 3 will beforced downwardly and will break the traveler against the ring. Thebroken pieces will snap off to one side or the other and fall on thefloor.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 2, the upper and lower members 3 and2 are arranged to be relatively adjustable with respect to each other,so as to be thereby accommodated to different types or thicknesses ofring-rails and rings. The lower member 2, provided with the sameshoulder 2 is in this form an L-shaped piece'bored with a hole toreceive the handle screw 4. Between the back of this member and the endof the handle, an auxiliary back plate 10 is inserted, this plate beingadapted to be adjustably clamped between the handle and the member 2 andhaving an oblong slot receiving the screw 4 for this purpose. The saidplate has a rearwardly turned flange 11, and the top member 3 isadjustably secured to it by means of a clamp screw 12 passed through anoblong slot in the top member and threaded in the flange. By means ofthe two screws it will be evident that the travelerengaging member canbe brought to any position necessary to enable it to reach and PatentedMay 18,1915..

overlie the spinning ring regardless of the depth of the rail flange orthe distance of the ring therefrom.

It will be understood that the tool above described and herein claimedis capable of embodiment in other and dissimilar forms and that withinthe scope of the claim various other means of rendering the parts of thetool adjustable can be resorted to.

I claim:

A tool for crushing travelers upon spinning rings, comprising a handle,an upper longer part projecting therefrom and adapted to cover a portionof the ring a lower shorter part opposed to the upper part andprojecting from the handle in the same di- I on said lower part, thehandle side of which nesses.

V to press the said upper part against the ring.

rection, and an upward projecting shoulder specification in the preseneeo if two I Witshoulder servesvas a fulcrum bearing upon the support ofthe spinning ring, whereby the upward movement of'the handle servesWitnesses: V

CLARA T. SMITH,

In testimony whereof, I have signed this GERTRUDE MCOAR Ys Copies ofthis'patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing theCommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G,

